iPods knock over beer mugs — That iPods are "in" on college campuses might not surprise you. That Apple's portable music players are more popular than beer? Now that's surprising. — Beer traditionally has had the biggest buzz with college students: Seventy-five percent consider drinking beer …

No Tolls on The Internet — Congress is about to cast a historic vote on the future of the Internet. It will decide whether the Internet remains a free and open technology fostering innovation, economic growth and democratic communication, or instead becomes the property of cable …

AOL subscribers up in arms over e-mail ads — Throngs of users threaten to say goodbye forever to AOL because of its decision to display ads with e-mail messages sent to paid subscribers — Millions have canceled their AOL LLC subscriptions in recent years, but Barbara Borchers has remained …

REVIEW: New Yahoo! Photos Beta — An overhaul of the Yahoo! Photos property, the most substantial improvement to the property since Yahoo! Photos was initially launched in 2000, will soon be rolled out to Yahoo! accounts worldwide. Unlike the Y! Mail Beta, users will not have the option …

Social Engineering, the USB Way — We recently got hired by a credit union to assess the security of its network. The client asked that we really push hard on the social engineering button. In the past, they'd had problems with employees sharing passwords and giving up information easily.

WHY TIMESSELECT IS THE RIGHT THING FOR THE TIMES TO DO — Mark Glaser writes in his PBS column, MediaShift, that the New York Times should put an end to TimesSelect, the paid-content option of its online edition that keeps op-ed columnists and the archives behind a subscription wall.

Hotel: Put that 'CrackBerry' down, you addict! — CHICAGO, Illinois (Reuters) — BlackBerry addicts have a crack at freedom when they check into one Chicago hotel: the manager will put the communications devices and others like them under lock and key for guests who want a break.

Small Companies & Google Adsense is the future — I was poking around alexa today http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_ sites?cc=CA&ts_mode=country&lang= none and saw that Plentyoffish is now a top 30 site In Canada ahead of all other dating sites. http://ranking.websearch.com/ SiteInfo.aspx? …

Microsoft plans better disclosures of tool — SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. acknowledged Wednesday that it needs to better inform users that its tool for determining whether a computer is running a pirated copy of Windows also quietly checks in daily with the software maker.

Super Battery — Ever wish you could charge your cellphone or laptop in a few seconds rather than hours? As this ScienCentral News video explains, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing a battery that could do just that, and also might never need to be replaced.

Beyond TV 4.3 Delivers More TV! — When I first built my HTPC three years ago with a 40GB hard drive, I thought that I was doing pretty good. Analog recordings are a manageable size, and I could always ShowSqueeze them from MPEG2 to WMV each night. I could easily store a couple weeks …

Working Model of $100 Laptop Steals MITX Spotlight — At an event put on to honor the top technology innovations from Massachusetts companies, a technology designed for users far from the halls of MIT and Harvard stole all the thunder. — At the MITX (Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange) …

Apple 13-inch MacBook — Our first look at Apple's newest notebook — It's been just another typical couple of weeks for Apple. First, it opened its latest New York City store, complete with enormous glass cube and Dr. Evil-style topless elevator. Then came the announcement of a Nike product …

Itiva: The video file transfer killer app? — The boom in Internet videos transfers — from movie downloads to amateur video sharing — is causing pain in the Internet backbone. — Now a Palo Alto start-up called Itiva has popped up, saying it has found the magic pill …

Censored Searches on Google.cn — The following searches contain sites in the results top 10 Google agreed to censor for their Chinese search engine - traditionally, sites contained in the top 10 are deemed to be the most relevant of the millions available on each topic: — democracy — rights

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